Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-25
DAKOTA ITEMS.

The Unitarian church at Sioux Fails
begins to rise.
Yankton is arranging for lecture
course for next winter.
Shang Foster was shot and killed at
Minot by Roxie Quaile.
Work will soon be begun on the
court house at Aberdeen.
Gov. Mellett thinks division will
carry even in north Dakota.
jamestown has hopes of getting the
Manitoba extension this year.
The Bangor Rustler now announces
that it will rustic for Cleveland.
Sitting Bull will be one of the attrac-
tions OF the north Dakota fair.
An Illinois baloonist will make an
ascension at the fair at Mitchell.
The agricultural college at Brookings
has an enrolment Of 256 students.
The excavation for the new Episco-
pal church at Huron has been begun.
Dakotas assessment for 1887 is over
5O,OOO,OOO against $132,OOO,OO0 in 1886.
Since January lst 1877 patents have
been filled for record in Brokings coun-
ty.
The surveyors on the Duluth, Pierre
and Black Hills line are now at Faulk-
ton.
AT Mandan the jury acquitted the
Indian boy Bighter of the charge of
murder.
The contract for building $1,000
school house at Brookings will be let
August 20.
The division campaign will be opened
by Gen. Campbell at Milbank Sep
tember 9th.
Hyde county potatoes are growing so
large that the ground swell is changing
the course of streams.
Gen. Hugh j. Campbell will deliver
an address at the September division
gathering at Vermillion.
A report comes from Wyoming that
the Black Hills district is anxious to
be annexed to that territory.
Col. Plulnmer spoke at Milbank on
local option Thursday afternoon and in
the evening in favor Of division.
The Milwaukee company contem-
plate locating division at Madison,
and building ten-stall engine-house.
Public Examiner Harris account OF
the Yankton asylum investigation is
ready for distribution. 1t consists OF
100 pages.
1t is reliably estimated that the wheat
crop of Dakota this year will exceed
100000 bushels and the corn crop
3O,OOO,OOO.
The Aberdeen, Bismarck and North
western has made a proposition to the
citizens of Watertown to build theil
line in there.
Two or three companies of the Da
kota militia will engage in the shan
battle at the Minneapolis exposition
next month.
The Milwaukee company has new
ties and steel rails scattered along it.
; line from Vermillion to Yankton.
will improve its road.
The county commissioners at Bis
marck rejected the petition for a vot
on local option on the ground that i
lacked sufficient names.
1t is said that Washington lawye
, is fleeing Dakota banks by getting
. them to pay him $500 for being mad
, Uuited States repositories.
) The new agricultural college a
: Brookings will be enclosed this week
l and when finished will be by far tn
prettiest building of the three.
: There is rumor of an effort beinI
t made to consolidate all papers in Brow,
t county outside of Aberdeen in one pa
t per to be published at Aberdeen.
: Mitchell has sent a committee to il
y terview the Manitoba and Illinois Ger
tral Railway companies relative t
building their lines into that city.
: The champions of south Dakota, tn
= Watertown club, have been defeated
: defeated by the north men, the Farg
= club, the champions Of that section.
|. A Duluth grain firm Is preparing t
4 build mammoth grain house on tn
!, Northwestern track in Aberdeen. Tn
o firm intends paying Duluth prices fc
It grain.
Gov. Church has designated Col.
l. w. Sheafe, as "colonel commandin
y camp" at the Militia encampment /;
]. Huron, he being the ranking officer /
o present.
l. 1t has been suggested that if Pres
h dent Cleveland visits Dakota that h
l. had better bring Sparks along, as thel
IS are settlers who would like very muc
t. to see him.
/ Ever Peterson, one of the pioneers {
n Brookings county, has just returnt
t. from Spokane Falls, w. T.. where /
le has spent several months, and has d
le cided to settle there.
g The grain buyers along the Omal
1T road are forcing the prices of wheat u
K at Mitchell and at Alexandria, whe
A. hitherto the Milwaukee elevator me
ID had things their own way.
ID w. II. Potter, a subscription solicit,
r. for Carter Bros. publishing house
le Canton has been bound over to ava
re the action of the grand jury upon Il
'r charge of forgery and larceny.
es Railway Commissioner Grggs sa
al that before long all the warehous
r will be obliged to take out Il licen
lie and give bonds for the storing of graf
oe He considers it protection alike to el
r. yotor man and fnrmaro